JMSC graduate and multi-media journalist, Phillippa Stewart, has completed a year-long, 15,000km charity cycle from Malaysia to the UK, and won an international photographic competition along the way.
Academy Award winner and JMSC faculty member Ruby Yang delivered her inaugural talk, titled “Becoming American, Becoming Chinese: A Personal Journey Through San Francisco, Beijing and Hong Kong,” as HKU’s new Hung Leung Hau Ling Distinguished Fellow in Humanities on April 25. She showed clips of her documentaries, short subjects and public service announcements, and gave a tour d’horizon of her career.
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Dan Gillmor, noted journalist, author and educator, will give a talk at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre on February 14 entitled “Imagining Journalism’s Future: Conversation, Data and Entrepreneurship.” Date: 14 February 2014, Friday Time: […]
A JMSC position paper urging increased legal protection for creators of parodies and similar literary or artistic expression was repeatedly cited by the Hong Kong government in its report on a recently concluded public consultation on copyright law reform.
Award-winning photojournalist Alex Hofford will speak at the University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Centre this Thursday, Nov. 28, from 11:00 a.m. to 12 noon. The occasion will be an informal Q&A session with the students of Associate Professor Miklos Sukosd's "Environmental Communication" class, Room 101, Eliot Hall.
A distinguished group of lawyers, legal experts and officials from around the world is meeting in Hong Kong October 18 and 19 to examine the controversies and challenges the Internet age has created for the […]
JMSC professor Kevin Sites spent his summer the way he has spent much of his professional life – swimming with warlords, having his life threatened, nearly getting hit in a mortar attack, and stepping into the middle of […]